[Yum] problems with yum --allow-downgrade

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 07:45 +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> Hi David,
> I do have it enabled, but I don't see the package in listing.
> Example (util-linux now in lbox-testing repo)
> 


I did some looking into this and the short answer is that making it work
again is going to involve some hard thoughts about what we do or do not
support for downgrades. I added a comment here:

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=c547fac1b1efef4ba38b3a867a6799531847cc56;hp=2d6891b527495507884d142ca43de2be83647b0a

not sure what the next will be w/it, though.

Some thoughts over here, too:
http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2008-October/005442.html

follow the rest of that thread

-sv